Eye On The Aberrant

Before leaving Michigan for Arizona in 1995, my wife acquired an intricately carved wooden stick carefully shaped and painted to look like a diamond-back rattlesnake. It was a beautiful piece of art and we paid a good deal of money to have it. The man who sold it to her, who I now think of as a snake oil salesman of the worst kind, charmed Doris into thinking she needed the piece of art for a special ritual that was to occur on the Hopi reservation after our arrival. He told her that she needed to give it as a gift to a powerful tribal leader. Once doing this, he said she would be well received by the Indians. That snake had an effect on the Arizona Indians all right, but it did not happen the way we expected.

They did it successfully when Hillary Clinton pushed for a public health care system in 1993. The insurance companies managed to cut the best out of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act during his term in office. And the battle is on again as a Democratic Party coalition now presses to fix Obama’s plan and provide the single payer health care system desired by most Americans. Other than the battle against global warming the quest for improved health care will probably be among the most important issues facing candidates for the presidency in 2020.

There is a story about a Chinese archaeologist named Chi Pu Tei who in 1938 discovered a strange alignment of graves in the Baian Kara Ula Mountains, near the Sino-Tibetan border. In the graves were small, frail skeletal remains of beings that had unusually large skulls. Nearby were found cave drawings of these beings wearing helmets. In 1962 researchers found the first of 716 record-like stone disks with tiny markings on them that appeared to be writing. The stones were very hard, made of granite and concentrations of cobalt and other metals. The inscriptions were so tiny it required a magnifying glass to examine them. They told of a lost alien tribe called the Dopa that crash landed on Earth.

There has been great concern over the greenhouse gasses known to be collecting in the atmosphere and blamed for the dangerous heating of our planet. But there are other greenhouse gasses that include fluoride and yet another little reported gas called sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) stemming from the industrial use of fluoride that should also be of great concern. Sulfur hexafluoride is an inorganic, colorless, odorless, non-flammable, and extremely potent greenhouse gas. Its formula contains six parts of fluoride and one part sulfur. This interesting gas is being used to insulate electric transmission lines, make “air cushioned” shoes and compressed canisters used to blow up automobile tires.

Ireland is a place of my families’ origins. While I have never walked its sod, there is a strange beaconing call from those distant shores that have haunted me throughout my life. When I was in college I was befriended by a big husky black star of the school’s football team who referred to me as his “black Irish pal” when we tipped beer together. I didn’t realize until much later that his reference to the black Irish went deep into the history of Ireland. It seems that among the very ancient settlers to that haunting place were the TWA, a tribe of black pygmies that migrated north from Africa and made the island nation their home.

A team of researchers has now studied and documented the effects of “magic mushrooms,” technically known as the psilocybin variety, and learned something that most users probably already know . . . the “shroom” offers a safe, long-lasting way of improving lives and personal feelings of well-being. So why are psilocybin mushrooms on the government’s Schedule I list of controlled substances? That is a good question. As a Schedule I substance psilocybin carries the highest penalties for possession and sale. Conviction can lead to jail or prison time, stiff fines, and loss of a driver’s license.

The head of an Indian rights organization in New Mexico once suggested that the Navajo, Apache and other tribes in Arizona and New Mexico are eating too much fry bread. But if there is anything unique that is sold by the native people at public reservation gatherings, it is fry bread. You see it everywhere. It is cheap. Easy to make. And tasty. Strangely, the Indians invented this delicacy out of necessity after they were rounded up and forced to live in government concentration camps in the mid-1800s. The women of the tribes did the best they could with the rations. They formed dough balls that were patted flat and then cooked in boiling animal fat over fires. For a time, it was a main staple in the Indian diet. Unfortunately, fry bread became popular. And it tastes very good.

A team of scientists studying the genome of the dog has discovered its origin dates back at least 100,000 years and is linked to the grey wolf in Asia. The team from the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, published its findings in the British journal Nature. “Dogs evolved through a mutually beneficial relationship with humans, sharing living space and food sources,” the study suggests. Dogs are believed to be the first animals domesticated by humans. Over thousands of years, the group said, and genetic pressure by Homo sapiens caused the emergence of dog breeds which specialized in herding, hunting and obedience, as well as dogs prized for certain looks. But there is a mystery connected here.

I was a child when fluoride, a by-produce from the manufacture of the atomic bomb, was first introduced to the American people. Nobody told us where fluoride came from. All we knew is that it was a wonderful new product that would make our teeth extra hard and prevent cavities. When a free fluoride clinic was set up one summer in our school, all the kids in town were lined up to have this bitter tasting stuff rubbed all over our teeth. We were pretty gullible in those days. The war years and the period immediately following the war was a time of great scientific advancement, when people were lulled into the belief that science was going to solve all of the problems of the world. The belief was so strong that we believed whatever a scientist told us. Nobody dreamed that we might be victims of a fraud.

My late wife couldn’t wear a watch. Her body somehow magnetizes the metal components and within a few days a timepiece on her wrist will stop working. She also turned off streetlights when walking in the night. They just blinked off as she passed. Doris was one of many people in the world that apparently store and send out strong enough electric charges to affect the things around her. We all have experienced static electricity. That usually happens to people that live or work in the ultra-dry environment created by some winter heating systems. Our bodies are electrically charged energy systems. While I am incapable of explaining how it works, our brains are comparable in many ways to complex computer systems, constantly generating information while at the same time keeping our bodies operating.

We all know that President Trump’s scuffle with CNN reporter Jim Acosta and the legal battle over Acosta’s right to due process has been making headlines. That Acosta was reinstated as a member of the White House media crew by court order was the proper outcome of this issue. But it appears to only be the tip of a mountain of a growing conflict between the power figures and the public’s right to know what these people are up to . . . not only in the United States but apparently in other parts of of the world.

Author and video producer Steven Jacobson said: "Television is the most powerful weapon of psychological warfare in history. The programming that we are constantly assaulted by throughout our lives conditions us. It programs us to a particular worldview. Now, we may consider it normal because we were born into this system of lies and deception. And because we were born into this situation and our parents were born into it and have suffered from it, we don’t know any better." Jacobson is the author of a book titled Mind Control In America. On its opening page he declares: "All the problems in America are the result of people being led to believe things that are not true."

Not long ago we read a frightening report about a long-range plan by United States (mostly Republican neoconservative leadership), dating back to the Reagan Administration and the collapse of the Soviet Union, that would force a reshaping of the world into the America's image. There was an organization called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, that was formed just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This organization promoted the idea that it was time for America to take "preemptive action" to enforce U. S. interests abroad. Included in this plan was the removal of unfriendly governments so that the world can be changed as "favorable to American principles and interests."

Have you ever wonder why the stock market makes the U.S. economy look so healthy while so many Americans are struggling just to make ends meet? Have you also wondered why there has been no push to raise the minimum wage or why many skilled workers are still listed among the unemployed? Consider this: the corporate giants appear to like it this way.

The great wall of division among humans throughout written history has always been wealth. Wealth in turn can be interpreted as ownership. Those with wealth possess property, they control society’s monetary supply and consequently power. Imagine living in a counter society where ownership of "things" does not exist. Believe it or not, such social groups have always existed but in primitive tribal settings. Their very existence strongly suggests that property ownership has been the invention of collective behavior by what we call civilized people. It has been said that when Europeans first stepped on American soil, the natives were puzzled at the idea of "owning land." Some of the languages lacked words to even describe personal ownership of anything.

Slavery has been a way of life on Earth for as long as humans have recorded history. It has appeared in many forms . . . from the concept of one man owning another and forcing the slave to do his will, to serfdom under the rule of kings and assembly line workers laboring for whatever the employer chooses to pay. Existence under slavery has always meant a life of hard labor and drudgery. Workers are owned by the master in one way or another. When jobs are plentiful and there is competition for skilled labor, workers can choose where they will work. But they always must work to live.

Since entering the atomic age the concept of critical mass has become part of our vocabulary.In atomic fusion, we are talking about a buildup of heat from the splitting of supercharged atoms that explode after reaching a state of critical mass. And admittedly this is a crude explanation of something that I know little about. Now the mystics have developed a theory of critical mass linked to a belief in the evolution of human consciousness. With billions of humans all using their minds at the same time, they are tapping in and being influenced by a central information library called the collective unconsciousness.

There was an incredible story making its rounds on the web awhile back about a Dr. Berrenda Fox, a holistic practitioner from Avalon Wellness Centre, Mt. Shasta, Calif., who claimed humans are going through DNA and cellular changes and are becoming a new life form. Fox, who said she was working on programming explaining an understanding of "extraterrestrials and their role in what is happening with mankind," claimed she had documented evidence that many children and some adults were mutating into something else. She says nobody knows what we are turning into, however. Whatever it is, they are among us.

There is an implication via daily media reports that rising values on the world stock exchanges reflects a healthy and growing economy. The stock market numbers go up when world events suggest that the big corporations will be in a position to make more profit. When the opposite is true, the value of stock plunges. Television anchors faithfully report to us every day just what the stock markets are doing . . . as if that is news that we need to know. In truth, the only people that have an interest in the fluctuations on the stock exchanges are the wealthy individuals who invest their money in business. Most of us are struggling to earn enough money to feed our families with nothing left to think about investing in anything.

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." -- Margaret Mead, the late American cultural anthropologist.

It has been said that television has become the greatest tool for the enslavement of the people ever devised. Most American families have become so dependent on their television screens that they devote nearly every minute of their spare time staring at it and allowing the programming pouring out of it fill their brains with minutia. Giving up television programming may be harder than you think.

The Trump call for a creation of a sixth branch of our military that will be known as the Space Corps may be part of a complex hoax that has been going on in the United States for the past 80 years. This revelation was revealed in a year 2000 report by American space weapons expert Dr. Carol Rosin that appeared in Nexus Magazine. Rosin said she was given this information during a lengthy interview with Wernher Von Braun, the father of rocket technology and space science in the United States. She said she worked with Von Braun during the final years of Von Braun’s life in the 1970’s.

"Excitotoxins, the Taste That Kills," is a shocking book by Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi. The book claims certain ingredients found in most prepared foods are poisoning us. Since its release in 1997, Blaylock's book has inspired further research in which a variety of other papers by notable experts strongly support his claims that a "food enhancer" called monosodium glutamate (MSG) and an artificial sweetener called aspartame are linked to a wide variety of human brain disorders.

I don't know if you have noticed how we have been fed propaganda via our nightly television news programs about some evil guys or gangs somewhere in the world, that are plotting to destroy us by terrorist assaults or weapons of mass destruction. It reminds me of George Orwell's prophetic book "1984" in which the author envisions an overpopulated world where humans live in a tightly controlled environment. A major portion of the government control in the book involved an ongoing war with some unseen enemy. Big Brother constantly fed hate propaganda into the minds of the people against that enemy force. It was a way of uniting the people in a form of patriotism. The war also served to pump new energy into the economy.

Folks in the Midwest and on the East Coast are wondering why they have been hit with a “polar vortex,” periods of extreme cold, while researchers are blaming it on global warming. A report in Forbes written by Ethan Siegel attempts to explain this phenomenon. Siegel wrote: “The exact details of how this works are complex, but the explanation is simple: warmer land temperatures, particularly in North America and northern Eurasia, all more heat to be transported into the Arctic stratosphere. A warmer Earth makes sudden stratospheric warming events more likely and more frequent. And those events destabilize the polar vortex, bring cold air down into the mid-latitudes, and cause the extreme weather we’re experiencing right now.” What is worse, the researchers are saying these extremes may be with us for awhile.

Our nation is caught up in what may be its worst test of endurance yet; the radical financial take-over by big corporate bosses while the professional clown in Washington keeps all eyes focused on him. Columnist Chris Hedges, in a recent commentary about the media’s role in this ongoing national blight wrote:“The press, giddy with its newfound sense of mission and purpose, is carrying out a moral crusade against Donald Trump. It is great for ratings. It is great for profits. But it is not moral, and it is not journalism.”Indeed, but with so much daily chaos . . . including the daily firings of key White House staff . . . the placement of controversial characters with shaded history in their place . . . and Trump’s radical insults on foreign allies . . . where do journalists turn for genuine news stories? The circus is so loud and colorful that attempts by professional research journalists to get “the real story” are squashed in the rush for the top story of the hour.

The United States once held the distinction of having the best colleges and universities in the world. People came from all over to study here. That was once. It is no longer the case. This is now a nation that has been taken over by bankers and big money interests that have skillfully devalued the dollar, created an inflation that has grown faster than workers can earn money to live, and in the process, destroyed the great universities that once turned out great thinkers, educators and creative people capable of lighting the world stage. The bankers and big money interests have literally taken over the nation's colleges and universities and made a big business out of them.

In his book, The Selfish Gene, published in 1989, Zoologist Richard Dawkins introduced the concept of the "meme," to the human vocabulary. He used the word as if it were a part of the human anatomy, a mysterious part of the nervous system that causes a mental knowledge of things outside of our awareness.Dawkins wrote that the meme "propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation."Thus we have the 100-monkey theory . . . an explanation why monkeys in various parts of the world are capable of learning new concepts when at least 100 monkeys in any one area have learned it.

There was a story told by Anthony Sherman, a military officer that served under General George Washington, who was present with Washington at Valley Forge during the terrible winter of 1777. It seems that Washington was visited by an angelic being that gave him visions of the new nation that was to be the result of the war Washington’s rag-tag army was fighting. In this vision, as allegedly told to Sherman directly by Washington after it happened, Washington learned his army would win the Revolutionary War and establish the Union. After that he had a vision of two more great tribulations; the Civil War and finally a great war fought on the soil of the United States.​

Italian researchers Franco Vazza and Alberto Feletti have supported a thesis we have been proposing, that the Creator exists in all things and that we, as living creatures on this planet, are but a minute particle of the energy that is the Living God. In a paper recently published in Nautilus, Vazza, an astrophysicist at Radio Astronomy Institute, Bologna, and Feletti, a neuroscientist at NOCSAE Hospital, Universitaria di Modena, noted the “strange similarity” between Neurons and the Galaxy.

Amidst all the destruction Mr. Trump is bringing to the framework of the United States, his judicial appointments may top the list. Despite his tardiness in filling many key government job positions since taking office, he has been extra busy filling federal judicial vacancies. An analysis by Allan Smith forBusiness Insider reveals that Trump has been concentrating on “shaping the federal bench” since coming to power. He has to date nominated 56 judicial appointments compared to Obama’s 22 nominations by this same time in office. The Judiciary Committee has only confirmed three, however. They include Trump’s appointments of Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U. S. Supreme Court.​

There is a mass movement among the working class . . . largely stirred by the severe acts of Donald Trump and his gang of thugs in Washington . . . to fight against suppression. A similar movement is going on all over the world where workers are calling for Globalization. In the United States the Capitalists are working hard to push it back. Thus we are in the midst of a battle between the "haves" and the "haves-not" and the enemy of the people is being clearly defined as Capitalism.​

Ever since doctors in Boston successfully transplanted a living human kidney in 1954, and Dr. Christian Bernard replaced a human heart in South Africa in 1967, there has been a boom in the business of organ transplants. While it is not the perfect solution to solving worn out body parts, the business of transplanting hearts, livers, kidneys, lungs, eyes and even fingers has become big business, with nearly one million successful cases worldwide. And as more and more patients recover from these surgical procedures, a strange thing has been happening. Some report having foreign memories, eerie new personal preferences and even unexplained emerging talents.

Regular readers know that I have been fascinated by the amazing number of anomalies being uncovered from deep in the earth and under the world’s oceans, many of them defying the historical record long cherished by contemporary historians and Bible scholars. The latest discoveries include satellite images that appear to define an ancient city, complete with massive buildings and 200-foot-tall pyramids, on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. A group of French undersea archaeologists claim the ruins may prove to be older than the pyramids of Egypt. And in northern Brazil, in the Amazon jungle near the Bolivian border, aerial observers are finding emerging ruins of once great cities, complete with giant avenues, ditches and buildings all suggesting that an advanced civilization once existed in areas unexplored by modern man.

Humans are animals, and in the animal kingdom, all creatures except perhaps the ostrich always respond dramatically to threats of danger. What is there in the human thought process that causes us to ignore or declare disbelief in threats so terrible they obviously threaten our lives, our life style and perhaps the extinction of us all? Notice how the debate over global warming, alias climate change, still goes on even as the world now suffers horrific storms, drought, summer heat and winter blizzards that not only compare to the worst weather events in history, but break all records. We debate the reality of this problem even as the mountain glaciers and polar ice caps melt and ocean water levels now threaten our coastal cities.

Largely because of the nation’s failed drug war and national “get tough on crime” policies initiated into state and federal law in the 1980s, there are more Americans currently under incarceration per capita in the U. S. than in any other nation in the world. Long prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders are shown to be the single greatest multiplying factor behind the problem of prison overcrowding.​

Before he left office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, left Americans with a warning that the military industrial complex constructed for this war had a “potential for a disastrous rise of misplaced power.” It seems we were not listening. The United States has since established and maintained a massive global military presence that rivals anything ever dreamed of by the old Roman Empire. And we flex our military muscle in every corner of the world and at taxpayer expense.​

The earthquake and tsunami that destroyed three of five nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, in 2011 has strayed from the news recently, but the disaster is still there and getting worse by the day, Japanese officials say. Scientists at the Daiichi nuclear plant this week declared a state of emergency after information gained from a robot revealed that one of the reactors has apparently burned its way through the bottom of the containment core and may be falling into the rock formations and possibly the ocean waters under the plant. The disaster is somewhat comparable to a runaway atomic bomb that no human manufactured device is capable of bringing under control.​

The talk about getting psychiatric help for "disturbed" people like pedophiles, compulsive drug users and those choosing to shoot large numbers of people in public places may be pushing the American mindset into dangerous territory. If the field of psychology ever had any merit, it has been buried under contemporary drives by big business and certain branches of our government to control the minds of the masses and make a lot of money doing it.

Noted scientists have been warning us for years now that our consumption of carbon fuels is destroying our planet, our atmosphere and our water and leading all living creatures into an agonizing extinction. We have had time to fix our situation. We have found the resources to turn away the danger but big oil, big coal and big gas companies have been fighting efforts to utilize them every step of the way. Now the researchers are saying . . . the time to escape inevitable doom is running out.

Back when nuclear researchers were learning how to capture and utilize the newly discovered source of energy developed for the first atomic bombs after World War II, there was a much (but unpublished) consternation among scientists over the use of thorium instead of plutonium for use in early energy breeder reactors. They recognized even then that there was extreme danger in working with uranium, the by-product of plutonium used in the manufacture of nuclear energy. While Thorium was recognized as a safer kind of energy source, it was rejected because they couldn't make bombs with the by-product.​

It is bad enough that the people are fighting the big oil and gas companies to stop the fracking and construction of leaky pipelines to transport the toxic materials pumping from the earth. The media appears to have forgotten the story but the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown continues to spread deadly radiation around the Northern Hemisphere of the world. It is not only in the air we breathe, but now it is found in the ground and in the water we drink.

One of the things that I have found interesting about the Christian Bible is the accuracy of some of the prophetic messages. Many, like the predicted rebirth of the “Dry Bones” that became the modern State of Israel have been fulfilled. There is one prophetic and troubling message found in the Book of the Revelation, Chapter 17, verses 10 and 11, that has left me confused and scratching my head . . . that is until quite recently. The verse reads: “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.” We have found a scary interpretation.​

Among the famous mysteries of the sea is the story of the sailing ship Mary Celeste, found in 1872 in perfect condition, nothing out of order, and sailing on the open Atlantic without a soul on board. The crew of 10 people, including Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife and daughter, vanished without a trace never to be seen again. Another similar historical disappearance occurred at the American colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, in 1590. About a hundred men, women and children living in the colony went missing and no trace of them was ever found. Some theories suggest that the people were attacked by natives or they moved off the island and lived among the natives. That could never be proven. Then there was the famous case of the 250 men and 16 officers of the Fifth Territorial Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment that disappeared in a cloud of smoke during World War I. The list goes on . . .

Those who have heard his lectures or read about him know that the late Jacque Fresco was among the great thinkers of the modern world. He recently died at the age of 101. During his life Fresco experienced two world wars, the Great Depression, and the shift from a family/farm-oriented society to the industrial/electronic/capitalistic wilderness we struggle with today. A self-taught industrial and architectural designer, social and structural engineer, Fresco invented numerous devices for industrial and medical use, and he designed a futuristic plan to meet the world’s social needs in what he called The Venus Project. That project is still alive and worth considering as a solution to our problems of overpopulation, climate change and an alternative to the failing world systems of government.

Fifty-seven-year-old Elon Musk is a man with an amazing mission. He says his goals are to change the world and humanity, reduce global warming and consequently reduce the risk of human extinction. And if the stogy controls of government and corporate powers don’t block him, he just might succeed.

The University of Queensland, Australia, recently conducted an international study that found that one-tenth of the wilderness on Earth has been destroyed in the last 20 years. A ten percent loss in trees and other green vegetation may not seem to be much, but a continued slashing of trees, coupled with attacks by infestation and disease brought on by global warming, is intensifying the looming crisis we are referring to as “climate change.” Humanity and trees have maintained an incredible symbiotic relationship for hundreds of thousands of years. The destruction of our forests is threatening this planet’s ability to sustain the delicate balance of nature that makes it possible for life to exist.​

There is some amazing news coming from University of Central Florida this winter. A researcher employed there has just discovered a way to use the process of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into clean air and produce a new form of energy in the process. Dr. Fernando Uribe-Romo, assistant professor of chemistry at the Orlando based school has just published his findings in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

After watching a review of John Oliver’s warning about the effects of accumulated nuclear waste during a recent Sunday night television show, I decided to take a new look at Bob Nichol’s website Radiation This Week. Nichols report is technical but if you study it, it is scary as hell. He not only backs what Oliver had to say, he suggests that our situation is so bad we may have unwittingly allowed for our own looming extinction.​

In all of the years I have been working as a journalist this is a story I never thought I would ever live to write. It is a story about a looming end of our world that appears to be happening before our eyes, it may be out of control, and the U.S. media and general population is paying little attention. Or perhaps they are shuttering their eyes and minds out of fear.​

Throughout history humanity has committed extreme crimes against itself, often in the name of God, because of racism and sometimes just because of a quest for land. None of the atrocities committed even by Hitler can compare to the terrible crimes committed by the invading Europeans against the millions of natives of both North and South American tribes from about the time Columbus reached the Caribbean Islands until the end of the American-Indian wars in the Nineteenth Century.​

Back in the early 1960’s when my late wife and I first began employment and building a potential nest egg for our future, we were shocked to discover how much the government was deducting from our paychecks each week for Social Security. Even then we calculated that if we could take the money deducted from our weekly paychecks for Social Security and invest it in personal low risk bonds promising a steady interest return we had the potential of becoming quite wealthy if we remained on the job for the next 40 years. But we were forced to accept Social Security. Now our government is claiming that the Social Security account is running dry. But it should be valued at trillions. So what happened to the money?

A Trillion Dollars To Cap EmissionsA comprehensive study by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2006 laid bare the damage to our planet by the world-wide industrial revolution that began in Europe and the United States and continues expanding at this hour in China, India and Latin American nations in South America. The report suggested an overall estimated cost of $1 trillion to cap the greenhouse gasses that most scientists now agree is a major cause, if not the cause of global warming. The report also warns that the volume of these toxic gas emissions will double by 2050 unless rich countries agree to take “significant” policy steps to cut energy use.

Contemporary writings by William Garner and Sean Maclaren point to secret world government rule by the Jesuits, under a Black Pope, as a controlling force that has been operating for hundreds of years. Garner’s book, Who Really Owns Your Gold, and Maclaren’s sequel, The Black Pope and the Jesuit Militia Distort the History of the United States of America, describe what they believe has been a Jesuit controlled shadow government that has skillfully controlled kingdoms, dictatorships, democracies and religions throughout the European world and the Americas for centuries. ​

Most Americans don’t know the name Albert Pike. Yet this Nineteenth Century prodigy, who lived from 1809 to 1891, has probably had more of an impact on our contemporary way of life than anyone who has ever lived. Pike was a general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He was a lawyer, writer, newspaper publisher, member of the Scottish rite of the Freemasons, founder of the Ku Klux Klan and a follower of the occult Luciferian Cabbalism believed linked to the Rothschild-controlled European banking system that some say is known as the Illuminati. If the story is true, it was between 1859 and 1871 that he worked out the details of a military blue-print for three world wars to occur during the Twentieth Century. It is all designed to force us into a one-world government. This story is disputed by some historians who have called it a hoax.​

Slavery has been a way of life on Earth for as long as humans have recorded history. And there has always been a quest for freedom. The founders of the United States declared their new nation "the land of the free." That slogan has remained with us, even appearing in the lyrics of the National Anthem. Americans consider themselves free, but free of what? They have been relatively free of tyranny and after a bloody fight to gain the right to have collective bargaining at the work place they gained such extra things as paid health care, paid vacation time and paid sick time. They bargained for five-day work weeks and eight-hour work days. And child labor laws stopped employers from working children in their sweat shops. But they always had to return to that grueling place on the assembly line, or at a desk in front of a computer, spending eight long hours of monotonously doing the same thing day in and day out just to earn what they need to pay the rent, buy food for the family, and keep the family car on the road so they can get to and from their jobs.

The son of a university professor, Guiseppi Mazzini was a genius who entered university study at the age of 14 and graduated with a law degree. He worked as a poor man's lawyer but at the same time pursued a career in journalism and took an interest in politics. The link with Adam Weishaupt was a simple one. Mazzini's father was a member of Weishaupt's Illuminati and was active in the organization's movement that led to the French Revolution.

Protecting And Serving

With the ultra-conservative right-wing gang of Tea party Republicans and Donald Trump controlling things in Washington, there is a huge threat of totally dismantling Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and all of the other well-designed social programs designed to assist the poor and low-income people in the U.S. Few seniors are expecting any more financial help for the next few years. We are hearing the cry that if we want to eat, “go get a job!” Those words remind us of the infamous quote "Let them eat cake" allegedly muttered by French Princess Marie-Antoninette when told of the disgruntled populous. And we all know what happened in France and to Marie-Antoninette's head after that.​

For years we have written about something called a collective unconsciousness . . . a common thread of knowledge that seems to be pooled in a brain library that all humans can access through right brain functioning. The name was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. This human library appears to be the glue that the shaman refers to when he declares that "we are all one." What he means is that all people are linked to a common light system . . . some call it God . . . from which we originated. ​

Worldwide shock and confusion over the re-election of George W. Bush for a second term in office has caused some people to wonder why so many people could have been so easily fooled. A friend sent me a link to a story by Bruce Conway titled “Stealth Cell Towers and the 2004 US Presidential Elections” that may explain this odd human behavior. Conway notes that the sudden construction of thousands of new and unobtrusive cell towers, many of them disguised as flag poles, occurred during the months prior to the election. He suggests that instead of serving cell phones, the towers were used for a national mind control that forced voters to believe in Bush even though common sense should have warned them otherwise.

I'm From The Government

The Washington gang has been busy covering Mr. Trump’s serpentine activities with “false news” and even going so far as to publish a false Time Magazine cover after Time and other world magazines portrayed him as an incompetent clown. With major newspapers and television networks now owned by a handful of big corporations, and aided by the Trump counter attacks, the American people have grown naturally suspicious of the news they are receiving.​

There was an organization called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, that was formed just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This organization promoted the idea that it was time for America to take "preemptive action" to enforce U. S. interests abroad. Included in this plan was the removal of unfriendly governments so that the world can be changed as "favorable to American principles and interests."​

The whole concept of terrorism is not new. What is new about the current "War On Terrorism," launched by the Bush Administration after the 9-11 attacks has been the virtual size and scope of the government generated counter-attacks. The United States has turned itself into an international bully with its guns trained against entire nations deemed "guilty" of financing and supporting terrorist bombing attacks against American targets both at home and abroad. In the eyes of the world, we have, ourselves, become the great world terrorist.

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Not Such Great Art

How insignificant the mighty affairs of man become when stacked up beside the actions of our living universe. While world leaders debate the reality of years of scientific warnings concerning the effects of carbon and methane gasses building up in our atmosphere, we are being bombarded with some of the worst storms, floods, droughts and heat in recorded history. Yet global warming deniers, prompted by the financial rewards pouring in from oil, gas and coal enterprises, are still blocking the extreme actions that might yet save us from extinction. It isn’t that the Universe hasn’t issued an earlier warning. While our leaders wrestled with threats of nuclear war, an overpopulated planet, loss of natural resources and environmental pollution, the Mother Earth flexed a muscle on Dec. 26, 2004, and sent out a massive earthquake so strong it unleashed one of the worst tsunamis to sweep the Indian Ocean in history. The force of the water devastated the Sumatra coast and over 240,000 people died.

The strange mesa formations that dot the Navajo landscape in northeastern Arizona are no mystery to the natives who live among them. They tell stories about how the rocks rose from the earth, driven by some mighty force under their feet. They say it was the Mother Earth herself who spawned them. That explanation is as good as anything geologists have come up with. Stories about volcanic action or wind and water erosion don't seem to fit. Close examination of the mesas show them to all be at similar height, a section of earth thrust hundreds of feet high, with flat tops evenly covered with about the same kind of soil as the surrounding desert lands below.

Critics have been poking fun at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green Energy plan that includes controlling excessive “cow farts.” Her proposal is not a laughing matter, however, since studies have shown that a single cow can produce between 66 and 132 gallons of methane gas in a single day. And that doesn’t include the amount of methane produced from the piles and piles of cow manure that flows into farm recycling centers. Because of the nation’s demands for the milk products and meat, there are hundreds of thousands of cows grazing on the farms. Methane is a serious problem since it collects more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. And the stench from livestock can be unbearable.So how to we plug the cow farts?

Dean Hamer’s book,"The God Gene; How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes," created a stir among theologians. He argues that humans are genetically programmed to worship God. Hamer suggests that faith is reduced to chemical reactions in the brain. And this angers Christians who want us to believe that faith is a personal decision in life that marks a new path from judgment into that of eternal reward.

To Our Shame . . . So Many Homeless People

Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third President, understood the dangerous power of the European banking system. After elected to office he attempted to create a publicly-owned central bank designed to keep European monarchs and aristocrats out of the new nation’s affairs. But the Bank of England won the fight. In 1791 the Bank of the United States was founded with the Rothschilds as the primary owners.​

There appears to have been a master plan underway to destroy access to knowledge and turn the masses of humanity into illiterate surfs to the bankers and corporate bosses who have seized even more control of the wealth. This shift from a time when Americans enjoyed a strong, union-driven middle class life style to the harsh living standards doled out today was a slow process that can be traced to historical events over the last 50 years.

The statistics published this year by Gary Griggs, an earth sciences professor at Santa Cruz’ University of California, puts the treat of our melting ice caps and glaciers in dramatic perspective. In his book, Coasts in Crisis; A Global Challenge, Griggs lays out a gloomy future for everybody living in cities and communities along the coasts of the world. He notes: “With about 150 million living within just three feet of high tide, and hundreds of millions more within a few more feet, future sea-level rise may be the greatest challenge human civilization has ever faced.”​

As our world plunges toward its own apocalyptic demise because of overpopulation human pollution and mismanagement of our natural resources, people are thinking seriously about escaping to the stars. But even if humans can somehow physically evolve and adapt to living on other worlds, space is not the solution to the human dilemma. The classic science fiction image of human space travel and settlement throughout the stars may be prohibited by the fact that we are only now learning about what is out there.

Fierce Weather Is The New Normal

Those popular cordless 5G devices, home entertainment systems and wireless receivers are being fed by radio frequency radiation spewing from cell towers in nearly everybody’s neighborhood. To increase services the telecom companies are installing more and more of them so cell-phone services do not fade for users on the move. The radiation everybody receives from these devices is troublesome enough. But this is nothing compared to the bombardment that looms. The Trump-run Federal Communication Commission has just approved plans by the telecom companies to launch some 20,000 satellites that will soon be sending focused beams of intense microwave radiation everywhere on Earth. These 5G systems will be about 10-times more powerful that the signals now being received from neighborhood cell towers.

Because of the shenanigans going on in Washington there has been talk about a proposed Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. There presently are 27 ratified Constitutional Amendments in existence. Another five have been proposed, but all have failed to pass the state ratification process established in Article V in the Constitution. It requires approval by three-fourths of the states before an amendment can become Constitutional law.

During my years working as a journalist, covering all phases of life from industry to government and the church, I have concluded that everything we as a society believe and do is carefully programmed by forces outside of our control. The above statement probably sounds like an old cliche to some readers, but if you think it out carefully, what is written is somewhat profound. It suggests that the reality we think we are experiencing is no more than a matrix of our own making. The very word "freedom," which is so cherished by Americans, is no more than an illusion. It does not exist. Everything we do and much of what we think is put in our minds via our televisions, our computers, our parents, teachers and the church.

Now that the printed news has fallen into disrepute and people now depend on the Internet and televised broadcasting to get reports about day’s events, the horrors of intense advertising is slamming us between the eyes. We can’t watch the nightly news now without wading through back-to-back commercials where smiling men and women try to sell us a line of products we don’t need or want. We can’t read an Internet story without having the promotion for some product and even the sponsoring publication forcing us to first read or at least look at a bright flashing promotion on the screen.